Inside America’s Last Ninepin Bowling Enclave
Once a national craze, ninepin bowling is now practiced in just eighteen Texas clubs, where a vibrant cast of characters keep the sport alive.
Once a national craze, ninepin bowling is now practiced in just eighteen Texas clubs, where a vibrant cast of characters keep the sport alive.
The Von Erichs get the Hollywood treatment, Tomball raises its stein, Beyoncé resurrects the Renaissance tour, and a Houston artist is golden.
Charismatic German immigrant Hans Nagel revolutionized the Houston Zoo and kept it afloat during the Great Depression.
Friedrich Ernst’s missive portrayed Texas as a paradise. His wife and daughter begged to differ.
Garrett Rabel serves a “perfect” sausage sandwich in New Berlin, where eating and serving links is a big part of the local culture.
The community 50 miles east of Austin celebrates its Slavic heritage each year with music, crafts, and lots of buttery, handmade noodles.
A Christmas carousel built nearly a century and a half ago is a welcome reminder of Texas’s deep German heritage.
A 181-year-old book reminds us that Texas was once much more German—and far more radical—than we realize.
When the local vernacular dies, what goes with it?
The German novel, penned in 1867 and set in the just-settled Hill Country hamlet, gets a modern translation.
Press your jeans, pull on your boots, shine up your buckle, and come along on this two-stepping tour of classic country dance halls, from Tom Sefcik Hall, in Seaton, to Club Westerner, in Victoria.
Conflicting accounts of the killing of German immigrants in the Hill Country during the Civil War are creating a certain amount of dis-Comfort.
An ethnic club’s new home brings a touch of Germany to San Antonio.
The residents of San Antonio’s King William Historic District saved their neighborhood from bums, bulldozers, and bogus bay windows. Now, if they can only save it from themselves.
Leon Jaworski is cleaning up again.
You know about Tex-Mex cooking, but what about German-Tex? Its beauty lies in the stomach of the engulfer.